Rare Book & Collectors' Sale 1st & 2nd October 2025

28 IMPERFECTIONS NOT STATED Fonsie Mealy’s Est. 1934 199. Sullivan (Sir Edward) The Book of Kells, folio L. (The Studio) 1914, First Edn., illus. (24 cold. plts.), decorated oatmeal cloth; The Book of Kells - Reproductions from the Manuscript in Trinity, folio, L. (Thomas & Hudson) 1974, illustrated (Flyer loosely inserted) orange cloth and matching slipcase. (2) €180 - €220 200. Association Copies Box: Cashel Library: Antonio (Marco) De Republica Eccleiastica Pars Secunda... Folio Lond 1620; The Second Volume of Plutarch’s Lives,.. by Several Hands, 8vo Lond. 1693, engd. frontis & other plts.; & 9 other antiquarian volumes, mostly odd, all in cont bindings. As a box lot, w.a.f. (1) * From the Diocesan Library, Cashel which is now in Uni. College, Limerick, all with inscribed name or stamp. €80 - €120 201. Spalding Club: Sculptured Stones of Scotland, 2 vols. lg. folio Aberdeen 1856 - Edinburgh 1857. For The Spalding Club 138, & 37 lithographed plts. some cold., orig. hf. mor. & black cloth. V. good set. (2) €160 - €220 202. Irish History: Duffy (Sean) Medieval Dublin, Proceeding of the Friends of Medieval Dublin Symposiums 1999, 19 vols. (1 - 19), D. (Four Courts Press) 2000-2023, all 8vo, illus., cloth & d.j. Important Clean Set. (19) €200 - €300 203. Clanricade (Earl of) The Memoirs and |Letters of Ulick, Marquis of Clanricarde, and Earl of Saint Albans, Lord Lieutenant of Ireland,... lg. folio, L. (J. Hughes) 1757, XX, 443, [1], 65, contemporary full calf, gilt decor. spine, raised bands, mor. label. V. good copy. (1) * Note: ‘Wesport House Copy’ (bought from Jeremy Ulick (Lord Altamont). €1000 - €1500 204. Coloured Plates: Curtis (Winifred) & Stones (Margaret) The Endemic Flora of Tasmania, 6 vols., folio L. (The Ariel Press) 1967-1978, profusely illus., orange cloth, gilt lettering and design, decorative d.j., clean set. (6) €300 - €400 205. One of 50 Copies Signed May (Frederick) String Quartet in C Minor, with a tribute by Hugh MacDiarmid, folio D. (Dolmen Press) 1976, published by Woodtown Music Publications, No. 19/50 specially Signed by Frederick M. May, Hugh MacDiarmid and Louis le Brocquy, cold. frontis, hf. calf, marble boards, gilt lettered spine. Good copy. (1) €250 - €320 206. Signed Limited Edition O’Riada (Sean) Hercules Dux Ferrariae, folio, D. (Dolmen Press) 1970, published by Woodstown Music Publication, No. 14/500 copies, Signed by Sean O’Riada, John Montague (Contributor) and Edward Delaney (Artist) (also Signed in Irish) hf. calf, marble boards, paper wrappers. Good copy. (1) €250 - €320 207. Bodkin (Thomas) Hugh Lane and His Pictures, sm. folio, D. (The Pegasus Press) 1932, Limited Edn. of 400 copies, illus., hf. green leather, marble boards, gilt lettered spine good. (1) €200 - €300 208. Signed by the Artist Walsh (Wendy) & Nelson (E.C.) Wendy Walsh, A Lifetime of Painting, folio, D. (Strawberry Tree) 2007, Signed, illus., cloth and d.j. (1) €200 - €300 209. Rare Irish Periodical: An Gaedheal Og, Vol. I No. 1 - Vol. I, No. 25, Folio Sept. 15th, 1938 - August 1939, bound as one. Illustrated profusely thro-out by Austin Molloy & others, photos etc., cloth backed pictorial boards. As a periodical, w.a.f. V. Scarce. (1) €100 - €150 205 200 206 203 204